Senior Vice President, Infrastructure Architect — Governance and Platforms (CIP)
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About the role
The Core Infrastructure Platforms (CIP) Architecture team is seeking a Senior Vice President Infrastructure Architect to drive architectural governance and endtoend design quality across IaaS and hypervisor platforms storage networks and compute in a large regulated financial environment. This is an individual contributor role focused on setting standards conducting design reviews and partnering closely with development and engineering teams to ensure adoption of best practices and adherence to policies controls and regulatory expectations. You will bring a broad deep infrastructure background and the ability to collaborate in depth with developers and platform engineers in a complex brownfield environment.
What youll do
- Lead CIP architectural governance for IaaS and virtualization platforms: define and evolve reference architectures standards patterns and guardrails.
- Conduct architecture/design reviews for infrastructure and platform initiatives; document decisions risks and required controls; track remediation and waivers/exceptions.
- Partner with application development and platform engineering teams to guide adoption of best practices across compute storage network and OS management for Windows and Linux.
- Champion automationfirst delivery: promote Infrastructure as Code and configuration management (e.g. Terraform Ansible/Puppet/Chef) and integrate controls into CI/CD pipelines and change processes.
- Ensure nonfunctional requirements are engineered in: resiliency/HA and DR performance and capacity observability and SLOs security and identity maintainability and operability.
- Align architectures with risk cyber compliance resiliency and operational risk requirements; provide traceability and evidence suitable for audits and governance forums.
- Drive lifecycle management and currency for platforms and OS: image standards hardening patching upgrades EOL/EOS mitigation and vulnerability management.
- Develop reusable blueprints templates and decision guides; run design clinics and provide mentorship to engineers and solution architects.
- Measure and report on design quality and standards adoption (e.g. architecture conformance policy adherence technical debt reduction) to support continuous improvement.
Required qualifications
- Significant handson experience in largescale regulated financial services infrastructure (typically 812 years) covering IaaS and virtualization at enterprise scale.
- Deep knowledge of:
- Hypervisor/virtualization platforms (e.g. VMware vSphere/ESXi KVM HyperV) and compute lifecycle management.
- Storage (SAN/NAS/object) and data protection concepts; networking fundamentals (L2/L3 routing load balancing firewalls SDN).
- Windows and Linux OS engineering image pipelines patching/hardening and configuration management.
- Proven experience establishing architectural standards and running architecture/design review processes including exceptions/waivers and remediation tracking.
- Proficiency reviewing Infrastructure as Code and automation pipelines; able to assess IaC modules policies and controls for compliance and operability.
- Strong grounding in resiliency engineering operational risk change/release management and service management practices.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills; able to translate complex infrastructure constraints for developers and noninfrastructure audiences.
- Individual contributor with the ability to deepdive when needed; collaborative lowego approach.
Preferred qualifications
- Exposure to Kubernetes platform architecture and operations container networking and security and service mesh.
- Experience with policyascode and compliance tooling (e.g. OPA Conftest Sentinel) and control mapping to industry frameworks.
- Capacity planning and performance engineering experience for computeintensive or latencysensitive workloads.
- Hybrid cloud integration and landing zone experience.
- Relevant certifications (e.g. VMware Linux networking ITIL cloud).
Level and reporting
- Senior Vice President level individual contributor; reports to the Head of CIP Architecture (or delegate). No direct peoplemanagement responsibilities.
Work model and travel
- Londonbased; hybrid work model insert onsite expectations per policy.
- Occasional offhours support for critical changes or incidents; limited travel for team events or data center visits.
Additional information
- Role emphasizes governance and crossfunctional collaboration; not required to be a software developer but must engage deeply with developers and platform engineers to achieve outcomes.
Required Experience:
Senior Exec
Key Skills
- Business Development
- Risk Management
- Financial Services
- Management Experience
- Profit & Loss
- Banking
- Regulatory Reporting
- Analysis Skills
- Relationship Management
- Financial Analysis
- Leadership Experience
- negotiation
About Company
JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans ov ... View more
